Parent Task Is Not Picking Up The Child Effort Task (~rmw) Finish Date

Products

• Clarity PPM On Premise
• Clarity PPM SaaS

Issue/Introduction

The Parent task that has the extended date to its child Effort Task (~rmw) is not picking up the Child Finish Date

STEPS TO REPRODUCE: 

1) Create a Template with 'ALLOW EFFORT TASK CREATION' checked so that it creates an Effort Task when a Team Member is added to the Project.

2) Create a Project from 'New from Template' option Modern UX

3) Set Project finish Date to something in future (Ex: March 11th 2024)

4) Create 2 or more Tasks (Through Modern or Classic / Gantt) with finish dates less than Effort Task finish date (Ex: Feb 12th 2024)

5) Make 1 task as a parent to rest of the tasks along with the Effort Task

6) Now the Parent Task finish Date is picked up from Effort Task Finish date

7) Go to Staff - Add a resource - Add start and Finish Date (Finish Date greater than March 11th 2024) & allocation is set to 100%

8) Go to Tasks

9) Effort Task shows the new Finish Date but Parent Task still shows the old Finish Date

10) Try making changes to any other child task (Not the Effort Task) (Ex: Change Finish date from Feb 12th 2024 to Feb 15th 2024)

11) Now the Parent Finish Task is picked from Effort Task.

 

Expected Results: The Parent Task should get updated with the Effort Task finish Date

Actual results: Parent Task Finish Date is not changing. 

Workaround: 

1) The Effort Task can be 'outdent' to Level 1 and it will function as expected.

2) If the Effort Task to be indented under a parent task, the task ID could be changed to something other than '~rmw' to convert it to a regular task --- If you do this, it means new staff added to the investment would have to be manually added into this task and the task would not act like the standard effort task. 

Environment

16.2.0

Resolution

Defect DE78913, is under engineering review.